Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago
Powell Park is one of the most fertile regions in this county and was the first section of White River valley settled by white people — if we bar the original Danforth Indian agency location near the mouth of the canyon.
Four feet of snow was reported from the hills in the early part of the week.
Meeker Herald ~ 100 years ago
A census of the community is being planned by the combined forces of the St. James Episcopal Church and the Methodist Church. The object in view is to obtain helpful information about all the people of the community and their religious preferences.
Anna, chief of the Colorow band, accompanied by about a baker’s dozen of braves, paid a flying visit to Meeker Monday. After “pumping” Judge Hazen for a while regarding the policy of the Herald as to William Colorow and his band, they tried to rope in some of the boys at a little game of Spanish monte and failing in that, mounted their ponies and started for the forks of the river.
Meeker Herald ~ 75 years ago
Free chest X-rays offered to all Tuesday, Oct. 30 (for tuberculosis).
As we go to press reports are that an airplane went down early Wednesday morning in the Little Hills section of Piceance creek.
A 40-man searching party today temporarily abandoned the hunt for Mrs. Louis B. Staudinger, 38, of La Salle, who has been missing since Friday. This missing woman is believed to have started down Miller creek which flows into the White river some 15 miles above Meeker. The region is extremely rough and her chances of survival are slight unless she has found shelter.
Meeker Herald ~ 50 years ago
One of the largest bulls ever killed in th White RIver Valley was brought in to the Purkey Packing Plant last weekend, belonging to Weldon W. Miller, vice president of Berry Bros. Contractors of Burwick, Louisiana. The large rack had a 48-inch spread and weighed 600 pounds after it was cleaned out.
You are absolutely right in assuming that the Utopians met last Monday night at the home of Pat Jordan. But, the truth is, it took this reporter a week to merely assimilate the facts.
M.A. “Dusty” Rhodes added one more memory to his 70 years Monday evening when Mr. and Mrs. Paul Starbuck in invited friends to their home and later surprised “Dusty” with the singing of the familiar score “Happy Birthday.”
RANGELY TIMES ~ 50 years ago
Rangely’s economy is jumping, with second quarter retail sales up a whopping 83.2 percent over the same period in 1974.
Pollard Contracting Co., Inc., and B&M Service, Inc., local trucking companies, intend to relocate their offices and trucking yard in the spring as soon as the weather permits.
RIO BLANCO HERALD TIMES ~ 25 years ago
The Colorado Mountain Tourism Conference presented Meeker with the Outstanding Community Initiative Award, honoring the community spirit that keeps the Sheepdog Trials going every year.
For the third straight year the Rangely High School Marching Band placed first at state competition in Pueblo Monday.